Chapter 61: Wishes Gathered from the Bottom
Watching the three Level 1 trash monsters Amano had re-summoned through [Human Wave Tactics], Kaiba Chiha couldn't help bursting into laughter.
"Hahaha, what did I think you were summoning? These powerless trash monsters—no matter how many you gather, they just turn from garbage into a garbage heap!"
"How do you know it's a garbage heap?"
"Huh?"
These cards truly were all picked up by Amano from garbage heaps.
Monsters nobody wanted in the upper districts, monsters discarded by the upper classes—picking them up one by one to assemble his deck.
"But without them, I'd have no way to stand here dueling you!"
Amano raised his hand pointing at the Blue-Eyes White Dragon on Kaiba Chiha's field.
"Turn end! The [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] Special Summoned by [Dragon's Revival] returns to its owner's hand!"
Though currently [Blue-Eyes White Dragon] stood on Kaiba Chiha's field, the "owner" remained Amano.
The massive white dragon's image vanished along with pure white radiance, transforming into a card of light ejecting to Amano's fingertips.
Seeing Blue-Eyes White Dragon leave her field, Kaiba Chiha ground her teeth in displeasure, roughly understanding Amano's intent.
"Pulling out these trash as Tributes—planning to summon another Blue-Eyes White Dragon? But it's useless, useless, USELESS, Amano Rei! With only one Blue-Eyes White Dragon, you can't possibly defeat me!"
Kaiba Chiha's nearly full Life Points plus the field of three Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragons—even if Amano Tribute Summoned Blue-Eyes White Dragon again, the battle gap remained visibly hopeless.
"My turn..."
Starting his turn, Amano's fingertips pressed against his Duel Disk deck.
Kaiba Chiha, as the academy's tenth-ranked duelist, was by far the strongest opponent Amano had faced.
However, Synchro Academy's entrance exam restrictions—while sealing away Amano's Fusion—equally prohibited Kaiba Chiha's Xyz.
In a normal duel, Kaiba Chiha could normally use Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon to perform Xyz Summons. With Amano's current deck strength, victory would be impossible.
Perhaps on this battlefield where neither Fusion nor Xyz was permitted lay Amano's only chance to defeat her.
And as reward for seizing that chance, Kaiba Chiha would drop massive points from her tenth-place position like a treasure chest monster, letting Amano strengthen his deck.
"Draw your card, Amano Rei! What are you thinking about? Given up already?"
Seeing Amano's fingertips remain pressed on his deck without moving, Kaiba Chiha couldn't help urging.
"Betting everything on this one draw—I'll defeat you, Chiha!"
"Huh? What delusion are you having?!"
"Betting on my District 32 New Year's Landlord tournament ten-consecutive-championships card luck!"
"Huh? What landlord... what..."
Decks respond to duelists' expectations. Amano knew—at this moment, that card would absolutely answer him.
Also picked up from the lower districts, in garbage heaps nobody noticed at night, a card that persisted in shining.
"Draw—!"
From Amano's fingertips, countless starlight seemed to explode outward.
Not starlight—highly concentrated Momentum particles materialized.
And Momentum particles symbolized Synchro Summoning.
Eve: "Time for me to take the stage, Amano Rei!"
Amano: "Yeah, let's show everyone the newest power we've obtained!"
Amano's final draw—Priestess Who Receives the Star Chalice.
At the exam venue, the truth Eve sensed about her body's energy filling had absolutely nothing to do with her flat chest.
Simply because the mid-level district, especially Synchro exam venues, had extremely high Momentum particle concentration.
After truly beginning his first duel in the mid-level district, Amano confirmed this fact.
His deck actually could perform Synchro Summons.
Even without a Tuner monster.
In this test duel prohibiting Fusion and Xyz, Amano held the greater advantage.
"Normal Summon! Priestess Who Receives the Star Chalice!"
Clearly driven into desperate straits, yet Amano's most critical summon wasn't the 3000 ATK Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Instead, a vanilla monster without battle power—this time even 0 ATK.
[Priestess Who Receives the Star Chalice] [2★ WATER]
[Spellcaster/Normal] [ATK: 0] [DEF: 2100]
Bathed in pale blue projection radiance, feeling the sacred aura thicker than usual, Eve materialized.
"Even abandoning Blue-Eyes White Dragon's summon." Kaiba Chiha spared no mockery. "If you want to surrender, I suggest you just Set cards and quit, Amano Rei. Stop this pathetic struggling before me!"
"Surrender? Chiha, are you mistaken about something?" Amano refused to back down. "I came to take the Synchro Academy exam—naturally I'll pass this test using Synchro Summons!"
"Synchro?" Kaiba Chiha genuinely widened her eyes in shock, rechecking the field, then couldn't help bursting into laughter again.
"How can your pile of trash monsters perform Synchro Summons? Don't you even understand Synchro rules? Synchro requires Tuner monsters! Amano Rei, you illiterate bottom-dweller—planning to win by making me laugh to death?!"
Then the next second, Kaiba Chiha stopped laughing.
On Amano's field, visibly gathering starlight was clearly accumulating.
A bunch of Normal Monsters without even effects—just having surrounding visual effects was already incredibly unbelievable.
'This is Synchro only vanillas can accomplish! A realm even Kaiba Corporation's knowledgeable second-in-command couldn't possibly access!'
This was Synchro Summoning completed using weaklings picked from garbage heaps.
Famous Duel King Yusei Fudo once said—Synchro Summoning represented stacking star levels, equally representing hope condensed from the weak.
Condensing the weak's hope—perhaps this starlight picked up from the lower districts and reaching here was the most suitable summoning method for Amano Rei.
Gathering Momentum particles, Amano's fingertips swept across his Duel Disk's Monster Zones, simultaneously illuminating four cards.
"I Synchro Summon using [Priestess Who Receives the Star Chalice] with [Heart Key Fairy], [Fire Rat], and [Unicycler]!"
This time, more than just Kaiba Chiha felt shocked.
Forget the entire academy exam venue—even Mizuki's livestream exploded.
[Stream Viewers: 129,556]
Nearly 130,000 people watching this livestream duel—popularity rocketing straight to BiliBili's live rankings first place.
[Synchro without a Tuner!]
[Is this cheating or rule rewriting?!]
[Streamer, streamer, start recording NOW—this might really make history!]
However, Mizuki Mu no longer had attention to spare for the barrage crazily scrolling through her stream.
Everyone's attention focused this instant on Synchro stars appearing from nothing.
Gripping her staff, chanting with narrowed eyes, Eve transformed into Synchro rings, passing through the other three monsters' bodies.
Though previously Amano had only used system-provided Extra Deck cards—
As stated initially, this world could print cards like the anime. The system merely exploited an Extra Deck loophole.
As long as you gained card spirit or Eva system recognition, the Extra Deck would answer the duelist.
"Time to show our bond, Eve!"
"Let's go, Amano!"
Though not Stardust Dragon, this Synchro Summon chant fit perfectly.
"Gathered wishes will become newborn shining stars! Become the path illuminated by light!!"
Monsters picked from garbage heaps—at this moment they truly became wished-upon starlight gathered here, illuminating Amano's path to victory.
"Level 2 Tuner monster [Priestess Who Receives the Star Chalice], Level 1 [Heart Key Fairy], [Fire Rat], [Unicycler]—Synchro!"
2★ + 1★ + 1★ + 1★ = 5★
"In the Divine Child's name, tune the starlight's radiance!"
"Synchro Summon! Level 5! [Star Chalice Divine Child - Eve]!"
[Star Chalice Divine Child - Eve] [5★ WATER]
[Spellcaster/Tuner/Synchro/Effect]
[ATK: 1800] [DEF: 2100]
[Tuner + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters]
[When this card is Synchro Summoned: You can treat 1 "Star Chalice" Normal Monster you control as a Tuner for that Synchro Summon.]
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